From editor@telecom-digest.org Tue Jun 8 13:48:40 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p3/8.11.3) id i58Hmei14032; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:48:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:48:40 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200406081748.i58Hmei14032@massis.lcs.mit.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: massis.lcs.mit.edu: ptownson set sender to editor@telecom-digest.org using -f To: ptownson Approved: patsnewlist Subject: TELECOM Digest V23 #282 TELECOM Digest Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:48:00 EDT Volume 23 : Issue 282 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson AirTunes Wireless Music Network (Monty Solomon) High-Definition Windows Media 9 (Monty Solomon) VeriSign Issues Quarterly Domain Report and Registrant Profile (M Solomon) First Quantum Cryptography Network Unveiled (Monty Solomon) Re: Zombie PCs Spew Out 80% of Spam (Scott Dorsey) Re: Zombie PCs Spew Out 80% of Spam (SELLCOM Tech support) A Good Telecommunication Dictionary on Line (Francesco Quartuccio) Re: Can I Tell If Incoming Call Is From A Pay Phone? (Scott Dorsey) Re: Web-Linked Cameras Let Parents Play Big Brother (SELLCOM Tech support) Cox Communications to Enter More VOIP Markets (VOIP News) Industry's First Global Solution for Multi-National Companies (VOIP News) New VoIP Player: Lingo (VOIP News) Last Laugh! Upromise, AOL Buddy and Grocery Rebates (A Friend) All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. 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Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 08:50:47 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: AirTunes Wireless Music Network AirTunes - iTunes unplugged http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/airtunes.html Unwire Your Home http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/unwireyourlivingroom.html AirPort Express http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/ Apple Unveils AirPort Express for Mac & PC Users http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/jun/07airport.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 08:53:30 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: High-Definition Windows Media 9 Microsoft and STMicroelectronics Team to Enable High-Definition Windows Media 9 Content for Consumers on the Leading Set-Top Box and DVD Hardware Platforms - Jun 8, 2004 12:01 AM (PR Newswire) Agreements Enable Development of New Class of Integrated Circuits REDMOND, Wash. and GENEVA, June 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced that the two companies are working together to develop a series of new integrated circuit components for manufacturers of consumer electronics products. These components will extend the reach of high-quality, secure Windows Media(R) 9 Series content, in both standard and high definition, to a wide range of popular devices such as set-top boxes and DVD players. Support of Windows Media 9 Series in products such as these means consumers will be able to easily enjoy the high audio and video quality that Windows Media provides. STMicroelectronics, one of the world's largest chip manufacturers and an acknowledged leader in delivering silicon solutions for digital set-top boxes, will supply these new components to consumer electronics manufacturers to enable fast market delivery of appliances such as set-top boxes, DVD players, digital video recorders (DVRs), Portable Media Centers, home-networking devices and more. The new STMicroelectronics integrated circuit components will support a range of Windows Media 9 Series technologies to help ensure the broadest possible range of applications. In addition to standard formats, this support includes the following audio and video technologies: * Windows Media Audio 9, which provides playback of high-quality two- channel audio with remarkable compression efficiency * Windows Media Audio 9 Professional, which delivers 5.1 or even 7.1 channels of discrete digital surround sound at bit rates as low as 128 kbps, and supports 24-bit resolution and 96 kHz sample rates to deliver better-than-CD quality sound * Windows Media Video 9 (including VC-9), which delivers high video quality at all bit rates and even supports high-definition video, with up to six times the resolution of DVD-video, at approximately one-third the bit rate of MPEG-2 - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=41841753 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 08:58:29 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: VeriSign Issues Quarterly Domain Report and Registrant Profile Data Reveal Domain Name Numbers, Utilization, and Renewal Rates Have Reached All-Time Highs MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks, today released the VeriSign Domain Report and VeriSign Domain Name Registrant Profile, highlighting key quarterly market data for domain name activity around the world. According to the report, more than 4.7 million new domain names were registered during the first quarter of 2004-the highest quarterly figure for new domain registrations in the history of the Internet. The profile reveals that more than 63 million domain names have now been registered, approximately one for every 100 people living in the world today. This number is greater than at any time in the Internet's history, surpassing even the heights that were seen during the Internet "bubble." Moreover, data reveal that the current base of domain names is being utilized more actively than ever before, as measured by renewal rates, look-up rates, and the percentage of domain names tied to live sites. As the operator of the global registry for .com and .net, as well as the provider of two of the root servers for the global domain name system, VeriSign has a unique view into the expansion and development of the Internet. The VeriSign Domain Report and the VeriSign Domain Name Registrant Profile ( http://www.verisign.com/domainbrief/ ) mark the second issue in VeriSign's quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief series. The series provides Internet users across the world with key statistical and analytical research on the domain name market. Each quarter, the Brief showcases a quarterly topic related to important Internet trends, and updates the Domain Report which provides key industry data. Findings in this quarter's Brief include both an increasingly strong rate of new registrations, and a growing stability and utilization within the existing domain name base. Highlights include: -- Overall Growth: New registrations, renewal rates, and the overall number of domain names under registration, all set records in the first quarter of 2004. Showing 21 percent growth over the first quarter of 2003, total domain name registrations surpassed 63 million domain names by the end of Q1. -- Increasing Utilization: In addition to being larger than at any point in history, the current domain name base is also being used more actively. Over 72 percent of today's domain names now resolve to a Web site, up from 55 percent at the height of the boom in December 2002. In addition, total domain name resolutions for .com and .net reached an average of 11 billion per day in the first quarter, indicating that the speculative purchase of domain names that fueled much of the growth in the late nineties has been replaced by real Web sites and e-mail boxes, to which real people are connecting. -- Increasing Globalization: Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) account for a growing portion of overall domain names, and currently represent 40 percent of all domain names registered in the world. The majority of ccTLDs are registered in Europe, including .de (Germany) and .uk (United Kingdom), which account for twelve percent and eight percent, respectively, of all domains registered in the world. In fact, .de accounts for more than 90 percent of all domains registered in Germany. Several countries around the world have already launched Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), also known as "multilingual" domains, which allow for the use of domain names written in non ASCII character sets. Other countries are planning to launch IDN capabilities this year. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=41845612 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:08:17 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: First Quantum Cryptography Network Unveiled The first computer network in which communication is secured with quantum cryptography is up and running in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Chip Elliott, leader of the quantum engineering team at BBN Technologies in Cambridge, sent the first packets of data across the Quantum Net (Qnet) on Thursday. The project is funded by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Currently the network only consists of six servers, but they can be integrated with regular servers and clients on the internet. Qnet's creators say the implementation of more nodes in banks and credit card companies could make exchanging sensitive data over the internet more secure than it is with current cryptography systems. The data in Qnet flows through ordinary fibre optic cables and stretches the 10 kilometres from BBN to Harvard University. It is encrypted using keys determined by the exchange of a series of single, polarised photons. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99995076 ------------------------------ From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Subject: Re: Zombie PCs Spew Out 80% of Spam Date: 8 Jun 2004 10:46:06 -0400 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) In article , John McHarry wrote: > SELLCOM Tech support wrote: >> Yes, when a spam site pops up in China, CUT CHINA!!! >> Yes, when a spam site pops up in Russia, CUT RUSSIA!! > It is a nice daydream, but it isn't just that it won't be done that > way, it would be technically "very difficult". The Internet was > designed to be self healing. True, it appears to hub and spoke out of > the US at present, but there are all sorts of other paths. If an > ISP's, or a country's path through the US is cut, its traffic will > automatically reroute to whoever is still connected that has the best > path. Yes, until the one remaining pipe to that location is totally overloaded and traffic ceases to flow at any reasonable rate. If the backbone MSPs refused to peer with chinanet or kornet, we would see a substantially reduced spam level. But if this was going to happen, it would have happened years ago. The reason that you see so much spam now is that the MSPs refused to take the problem seriously back in 1996 when it was manageable. I literally had the abuse guy from uunet telling me that there was no reason for him to take spamware vendor sites down because there was nothing wrong with that stuff, back in the late 90s. But they didn't take care of it when it was possible to deal with, and now it's totally out of hand. --scott "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Does anyone remember how, back in the 1980's and even as late as 1995 the very idea of cutting off certain sites -- no questions asked, no votes taken, etc -- just unilateraly refuse to deal with them was considered completely 'unthinkable'? And now that it has become quite 'thinkable', now that even the anarchists are beginning to see some advantages to even a wee bit of government oversight and control, as Scott points out it has become a lost cause. I wonder sometimes if we are just marking time, hanging around until the bitter end. PAT] ------------------------------ From: SELLCOM Tech support Subject: Re: Zombie PCs Spew Out 80% of Spam Organization: www.sellcom.com Reply-To: support@sellcom.com Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 16:03:49 GMT John McHarry posted on that vast internet thingie: >> Yes, when a spam site pops up in China, CUT CHINA!!! >> Yes, when a spam site pops up in Russia, CUT RUSSIA!! > It is a nice daydream, but it isn't just that it won't be done that > way, it would be technically "very difficult". The Internet was > designed to be self healing. True, it appears to hub and spoke out of > the US at present, but there are all sorts of other paths. If an > ISP's, or a country's path through the US is cut, its traffic will > automatically reroute to whoever is still connected that has the best > path. Spam hosts in the US get cut quick enough. There are only a handful of ISPs who are enabling the foreign spam sites and I am confident that they are providing that connectivity for consideration. If the US ISPs were held legally responsible for that which they do, they would find a way to clean up their act real fast. Steve at SELLCOM http://www.sellcom.com Discount multihandset cordless phones by Siemens, AT&T, Panasonic, Motorola Vtech 5.8Ghz; TMC ET4000 4line Epic phone, OnHoldPlus, Beamer, Watchguard! Brick wall "non MOV" surge protection. Mini-Splitter log splitter! If you sit at a desk www.ergochair.biz you owe it to yourself. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: You have said that before, Steve, and I cannot help but wonder if some of those ISP enablers you mention would not just go on without the rest of us. I mean, you don't really punish AT&T or Sprint; they would just laugh at you and continue without you. PAT] ------------------------------ From: francescoq@katamail.com (Francesco Quartuccio) Subject: A Good Telecommunication Dictionary on Line Date: 8 Jun 2004 02:27:58 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Hi, This is the first time that I approach the telecommunication "world". I'd like to know which are the best places on the web where it is possible to find a good description of telecomunication words, technology and architecture. Thanks all. Cheers, Francesco [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: (Getting out old rusted horn to give it a few toots) ... you might consider our online GLOSSARY here at the Telecom Archives http://telecom-digest.org , I say 'old and rusted' since it has been years since it was updated. Go in the general archives and look for the 'Glossary' files. There are four or five lists of them to pursue at your leisure. Another approach, to get just one or two terms defined is by using the Telecom Archives Email Information Service. *You must use a valid email address where you can get back stuff in the mail*. Send email to tel-archives@telecom-digest.org . The subject line does not matter. The first line of text must be the word REPLY your-valid-email-address. The second line of text must be the word GLOSSARY word-to-be-defined. Better still, to see a list of all the commands you can use with the email information service, send the same letter and use the word HELP as the command. Always use upper case commands; always begin flush at the left margin. Or use the command INFO for more information about the email information service. If anyone wants to write up a new glossary for modern times, I would gladly give you credit for it in the Digest. Maybe I should just print the HELP file here in the Digest sometime soon to refresh people's memories about how to use it. PAT] ------------------------------ From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Subject: Re: Can I Tell If Incoming Call Is From A Pay Phone? Date: 8 Jun 2004 10:42:30 -0400 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lisa Hancock wrote: > jim evans wrote: >> On my cell phone the only information I get about the caller is their >> phone number. Is there a way to tell which numbers are pay phone >> numbers. That is, callers who are calling from pay phones. > AFAIK there is no way to tell that an incoming call is from a payphone, > or any other kind of phone. If you are operating an 800 line, you will be charged a different rate for payphone calls and non-payphone calls. Surely the SS7 stuff warns you that this is going to be happening? --scott [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: No, Scott, it does not. PAT] ------------------------------ From: SELLCOM Tech support Subject: Re: Web-Linked Cameras Let Parents Play Big Brother Organization: www.sellcom.com Reply-To: support@sellcom.com Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 16:08:32 GMT Monty Solomon posted on that vast internet thingie: > These Internet protocol (IP) cameras, made by companies including > Cisco Systems Inc's (NASDAQ:CSCO) Linksys unit and Sweden's Axis > Communications (SWED:AXIS), function as stand-alone servers that > stream video over the Web. Panasonic has a nice selection as well indoor and outdoor wired and wireless. We just added them to our product line. I couldn't believe it! A camera with a http server AND a smtp after pop email server built in! It is hard to keep up with all this stuff. They do think mighty highly of them though ... http://www.panasoniccamera.com Steve at SELLCOM http://www.sellcom.com Discount multihandset cordless phones by Siemens, AT&T, Panasonic, Motorola Vtech 5.8Ghz; TMC ET4000 4line Epic phone, OnHoldPlus, Beamer, Watchguard! Brick wall "non MOV" surge protection. Mini-Splitter log splitter! If you sit at a desk www.ergochair.biz you owe it to yourself. ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 10:43:11 -0400 Subject: Cox Communications to Enter More VOIP Markets Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1608125,00.asp By Ellen Muraskin Add Atlanta-based Cox Communications -- the third biggest U.S. cable carrier, with 6.4 million basic cable subscribers -- to the list of carriers ramping up VOIP offerings. The difference here is that the IP voice expansion is a way to grow its total voice market, which is presently overwhelmingly circuit-based. Cox is planning to roll out VOIP services in U.S. markets not already served by its 7-year-old, circuit-switched Cox Digital Telephone telephony offering, expanding upon a promotional VOIP launch thus far limited to Roanoke, Va. According to Bobby Amirshahi, media relations at Cox, the residential service will be closely followed with a small-business VOIP package, aimed at Cox's high-speed Internet and data networking customers. The news comes as part of a customer win announcement from IP infrastructure vendor Nuera Communications Inc., of San Diego. Nuera BTX media gateways, now deployed by Cox in Roanoke, will be added to serve customers in additional areas. While many cable companies, such as Comcast and Cablevision, have entered the telephony market for the first time via VOIP, Cox has a pre-existing, circuit-switched telephony offering. The VOIP rollout will resemble Cox Digital Telephone very closely in both feature set and pricing, according to Amirshahi. This includes three-way calling and voice mail services, and a range of flat pricing plans, typically about 10 percent under those of incumbent telcos. Full story at: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1608125,00.asp How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home: http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html If you live in Michigan, subscribe to the MI-Telecom group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MI-Telecom/ ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 10:45:42 -0400 Subject: Industry's First Global Solution for Multi-National Companies Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-08-2004/0002189279&EDATE= AT&T Announces Global VoIP Telework Trials Industry's First Global Solution for Multi-National Companies BEDMINSTER, N.J., June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T today announced it is conducting trials in Asia and Europe for a global VoIP telework service, targeted to multinational companies, that it expects to introduce in 2005. The service is designed to allow a business to provide its employees a suite of advanced calling features in the home or hotel environment using readily available broadband connections. Eventually, the service will afford remote workers secure, high-speed connections directly to their corporate offices. The trials are scheduled to begin in the third quarter of this year in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and the United Kingdom. The service is built upon the proven capabilities of AT&T CallVantage(SM) Service, launched in March of this year and currently being rolled-out across the United States. Today's announcement signals the industry's first business VoIP-enabled global telework solution using high-speed Internet connectivity. "Maximizing the value of a global IP networking environment and the productivity and mobility it can provide is one of the top priorities of large enterprises today," said Cathy Martine, AT&T's senior vice president for Internet Telephony, Consumer Marketing and Sales. "If the promise of IP can be harnessed with remotely deployed employees and combined with a robust portfolio of VoIP-enabled networking solutions, it will positively influence a business' Return On Investment model. This in turn should stimulate more demand." Trial participants will enjoy easy access to AT&T's advanced VoIP calling features. These include features such as Personal Conferencing, which will make it quick and easy for participants to establish impromptu conference calls with up to ten individuals. Voicemail with eFeatures will allow participants to hear their messages by phone or PC and forward them to anyone in the world via e-mail. Call Logs will allow participants to track and monitor their calling habits or move frequently called numbers into their personal Phone Book for click-to-dial access. Responding to customer demand, AT&T is VoIP-enabling its entire business portfolio, providing solutions to companies that are evolving their networks to deliver IP-based services and applications to their own customers, suppliers, employees and partners. AT&T is driving toward seamless internetworking among all the various elements required for IP-based business communications. And, AT&T is the only VoIP provider with interoperability agreements with the five leading equipment manufacturers -- Alcatel, Avaya, Cisco, Nortel Networks and Siemens -- which is critical to delivering integrated solutions. The company also is focused on delivering new business voice applications and services like IP-Centrex, call center applications and Telework solutions. These are especially critical for the rapidly growing international teleworking community. The service provides portability of features and significant cost savings compared to making calls from hotels or using mobile roaming service for traveling professionals, affinities and communities that have need to communicate frequently. "Today's announcement is the latest in a series of moves by AT&T as it continues to reaffirm its position as a networking leader committed to delivering high-value, integrated services, solutions and applications for business customers and consumers," said Martine Beginning in 1997, AT&T began actively using VoIP solutions to address the needs of multi-national corporations. This early adoption of IP has led the company to its current position as a leading provider of VoIP solutions over its MPLS (Multi-Protocol Labeled Services) -based global network. It delivers these services over any data network including ATM, Frame Relay and IP-VPN. AT&T was the first business VoIP service provider to offer voice quality backed by standards-based service level agreements. The company currently supports hundreds of business VoIP customers and over the last year alone has experienced a fourfold increase in the number of business customers using its VoIP services. About AT&T For more than 125 years, AT&T (NYSE "T") has been known for unparalleled quality and reliability in communications. Backed by the research and development capabilities of AT&T Labs, the company is a global leader in local, long distance, Internet and transaction-based voice and data services. SOURCE AT&T Web Site: http://www.att.com Photo Notes: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19991018/ATT ------------------------------ From: VOIP News Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:26:50 -0400 Subject: New VoIP Player: Lingo Reply-To: VoIPnews@yahoogroups.com http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/45377 3 months free, then $20 a month A new VoIP offering dubbed Lingo from Primus Communications goes live this week, and promises users Unlimited Local and Long-Distance Calling in the US, Canada and Western Europe free for three months. After three months, the service is being offered for $19.95 a month; the feature set is currently being dissected by our veteran VoIP shoppers in our VoIP forum . While many analysts predict the death of smaller VoIP operations once the cable and bells launch VoIP, $20 a month is hard to beat provided the service doesn't stink -- Time Warner expects to charge $50 a month for VoIP to non-bundled customers when they launch their service this summer. [Comment: "provided the service doesn't stink" seems to be the operative phrase here. In one of the reader comments below this article, "unixbum" from Canada posted: "I had VoIP from Primus in Canada and I could not take the absence of competency as a company anymore and I cancelled. Will never go back to Primus even if it becomes free. The only thing that worked was the phone. They were billing me for calls to other primus VoIP numbers (Free), changing my plans (repeatedly) without telling me and that's just the start. Then when I cancelled they were to let my phone run for the remainder of the contract and they cut if off two days later. "Two of my friends got Primus VoIP. One had 3 VoIP gateways sent to him and they put his first phone number in the wrong province then they moved it to the correct province and city and then they cancelled the number on him. Then they assigned him a new number. "The other friend had two VoIP gateways sent to the wrong address before they sent it to the correct one. They started billing him for the calls that were being made by the gateways that they sent to the wrong address and he had not even made a phone call yet because he had not received any equipment. It was apparently quite hard to explain to the rep that if they send it to the wrong address he just might not get the unit. It might be useful to require a signature when they send out a gateway. "Just my $0.02. Avoid Primus." Of course, the above report came from Canada -- maybe things will be different in the United States, and maybe they won't. Unless I was something of a risk-taker, I think I'd wait and see what sort of reviews show up in the BroadbandReports.com VoIP forum before I jumped on this service. Also, they seem to have a very small pool of local ratecenters in which they can offer numbers, so unless you live in or near a major city the chances of getting a local phone number are not real high.] Article plus reader comments at: http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/45377 Additional thread on Lingo: http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,10442660~mode=flat ------------------------------ Date: 8 Jun 2004 11:43:11 -0400 From: A Friend Subject: Last Laugh! Upromise, AOL Buddy amd Grocery Rebates Probably not for publication under my name: > I have never heard of UPromise; does anyone know how it works or what > it does? See www.upromise.com. It gives you small rebates on groceries and other stuff that go into a college savings account. After nearly two years, my account contains $2.39 so I'm glad my daughter isn't planning to go to college any time soon. 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